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Originally Posted by Jevangil
Also, you have to remember that AT&T offers the iPhone as a data intensive device. Imagine them selling the device in an area where there is only roaming and having the users rack up hundreds of Gigabytes of data transfer on a roaming network. The bills would be astronomical.
In this case, I would have to say that AT&T is doing the right thing in protecting the consumers in this area from putting themselves in the poor house while checking emails and downloading fart apps on their iPhones.
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Protecting the customers by charging the bejesus out of them when they're still in the US? When I was on T-Mobile not only did I never lose connection - it automatically roamed onto any carrier the phone could find - but I also was never charged for that. Hell, even when I was outside the US CONUS and was only in US Territories.
If they had protecting the customers at heart, they could activate roaming and then
not charge people more for it.
If they had protecting the customers at heart, they wouldn't charge 20¢ per text message if you're not on a plan. 20¢? It's a couple of characters of text, for crying out loud! It takes more data transfer to connect a call and say the "H" in "Hello!"